My name is Jerrod. I've been practicing in the Theravada tradition for nearly 10 years and am formerly a moderator for another international Theravada forum. It hadn't really occurred to me to look into other forums until very recently. I really enjoy talking about the dhamma, learning and helping others. I am excited to meet some new fellow travelers of the middle path and learn something new. I hope to rejuvenate my practice which has fallen a bit by the wayside. I keep 5 precepts but have gotten away from a regular meditation practice which I will be reimplementing soon as I know for certain what a difference it makes for me. Really looking forward to interacting here.

Hi Jerrod and welcome to Dhamma Wheel!As a matter of interest, which other discussion board were you a moderator at?kind regards,

Ben

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

---The trouble is that you think you have time------Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe------It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---

Hi Ben, and thanks for the welcome. To answer your question I was a mod at the Dhammaloka.org site which is run by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. A truly wonderful and inspiring group of lay people and monastics. Alas, all is transient, so here I am.

Chris, I thank you as well for the welcome and you compliment. I only hope you haven't read lately, LOL. I hope I'll get the chance to get to know you here. I'll likely still be on the BSWA site but not contributing much there for a while. I'm just going to sit back and watch for a while and keep in touch with the monastics as needs be.